Why must people force their irrational reactions on a rational world?

[her209]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: Hardcore

Originally posted by: her209
There are a lot of things science can't prove.

Name these 'lots' of things... YET being able to prove something is not the same as NOT being able to prove something.

K, prove that ghosts do not exist.

I think we've made it pretty clear that the existance of ghosts is the claim here, therefore, the burden of proof of ghosts is a claim made my non-scientists, not scientists. Read the posts explaining logic above.

For the burden of proof to lie with scientists, we have to be making the logical claim. You have to ask us to prove something DOES EXIST, just like YOU have to prove that ghosts exist.

The evidence certainly exists. You are telling us to define something on your terms that is inadequate and/or incomplete.

Here's an easier one: Scientifically prove consciousness.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: Hardcore

Originally posted by: her209
There are a lot of things science can't prove.

Name these 'lots' of things... YET being able to prove something is not the same as NOT being able to prove something.

K, prove that ghosts do not exist.

I think we've made it pretty clear that the existance of ghosts is the claim here, therefore, the burden of proof of ghosts is a claim made my non-scientists, not scientists. Read the posts explaining logic above.

For the burden of proof to lie with scientists, we have to be making the logical claim. You have to ask us to prove something DOES EXIST, just like YOU have to prove that ghosts exist.

*nod* I went through this in the other thread, with about 5 god-squad members trying to tell me that atheism was the theory which had to be proven, not "God" :roll:

*sigh*

:beer:

*chugs the beer*

It's a direct parallel to the ghost example.

 

[erikiksaz]

Just because we can't prove or disprove something doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. We just need time!

Our "rational" world isn't as rational as we think, it's only as real as we can prove it to be. I suppose we're the limitation, huh?